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The U.S. Department of Labor has announced an agreement with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) that will result in payment of more than $6.5 million in back wages to almost 900 pilots, co-pilots and flight engineers. The employees worked on several USPS contracts and subcontracts to transport mail by air between January 1996 and August 2001. Wages paid were subject to requirements of the Service Contract Act (SCA).“In keeping with this Administration’s commitment to ensuring that workers receive all the wages they have earned, the department has finally reached an agreement settling a decade-old dispute involving employees of Postal Service contractors,” said Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao. “Back wages of $6.5 million will now be paid to the nearly 900 affected workers.”

The USPS and other parties — contractors, the Air Force and the Air Line Pilots Association — challenged before the Labor Department’s Administrative Review Board a change in the method used by the Wage and Hour Division to determine new, higher prevailing wage rates for flight crew employees. USPS did not incorporate the higher rates for pilots, co-pilots and flight engineers into their contracts and brought the matter to the Review Board. The Board vacated Wage and Hour’s method of computing the new rates and remanded the matter for issuance of a new wage determination.

This settlement resolves issues raised over 10 years ago by the challenge before the Administrative Review Board. The USPS contractors and subcontractors affected by this settlement are Ryan International Airlines, Express One International Inc. and Evergreen International Airlines Inc. Under the agreement, USPS will directly contact and make back wage payments to the employees who worked on the contracts and subcontracts.

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source: Department of Labor 

(DMNews) The U.S. Postal Service is the most trusted government agency when it comes to privacy protection, according to a recent Ponemon Institute LLC survey. Overall, however, government agencies fared worse in 2005 than the year before, suggesting that Americans are increasingly wary of breaches of their privacy.

The “2006 Privacy Trust Study of the United States Government” surveyed 6,000 Americans and sought to “understand the level of confidence Americans have in the many government agencies that routinely collect and use the public’s personal data,” according to a USPS statement.

Among respondents, 69 percent cited “loss of civil liberties and privacy rights” as their No. 1 concern, up 5 points from 2004, according to the statement. The second-ranked concern was “surveillance into personal life,” and third was “monitoring e-mail and Web activities.” Open Comments

source: DMNews

TESTING FOR DATA ENTRY OPERATORS
The United States Postal Service at The Glendale Remote Encoding Center, located in Glendale, AZ is offering the 710 written test for applicants who would be interested in data entry positions that we will be filling in the near future. These positions are non-career, long-term temporary with paid training. You will earn $12.43 an hour, with a $1.02 extra paid for work between 6 pm and 6 am. Benefits are not offered, except for 1 hour of annual leave earned for 20 hours worked. You must be willing to work afternoons, nights, weekends, and holidays, depending on the NEED of our customers.

The successful candidates will excel in alpha-numeric data entry and type both accurately and quickly. You must be 18 years old or 16 and graduated from high school. U.S. citizenship or permanent resident alien status is also required. If you are a current Federal Government Employee and plan to use us as a second job, we are unable to hire you at this time.

YOU MUST apply from 12/11/2005 12:01 a.m. (Eastern Time) through 02/28/06 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Time), on the Internet at www.usps.com/employment, click on “Apply for Exam” on employment page. Or on a touch-tone phone by calling 1-866-999-8777 (TTY 1-800-800-8776) and following the prompts. You will need to have ready:

ANNOUNCEMENT NUMBER - 142802
YOUR NAME SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER
ADDRESS, ZIP + 4

NOTE: Applicants will be sent a scheduling package when a test date is set. (It could be several weeks.) It will include the exam date, time and location, and material to prepare for the examination

An open house will be held for applicants from noon to 3 p.m. Feb. 25 at the USPS Glendale Remote Encoding Center, 5260 W. Phelps Road, Building C, inside the 51 Bells Office Complex

UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
The United States Postal Service is an Equal Opportunity Employer.